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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-for-teachers-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-for-teachers-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/355",
  "legislation_title": "The Requirements for Teachers (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-for-teachers-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Existing qualifications for teaching hearing impaired or visually impaired pupils",
  "text": "Any teacher, who immediately before 30th September 2005 possessed–\n(a) a special qualification to act as a teacher of deaf pupils for the purposes of regulation 7(1) of the Schools (Scotland) Code 1956 shall be treated as possessing a qualification as referred to in regulation 5 above; or\n(b) a special qualification to act as a teacher of blind pupils or as a blind teacher of the blind for the purposes of regulation 7(2) of the Schools (Scotland) Code 1956 shall be treated as possessing a qualification as referred to in regulation 6 above.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 30.9.2005, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 7(1) was amended by S.I. 1965/55 and 1967/1162."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 7(2) was amended by S.I. 1965/55 and 1967/1162."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/355/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:59.380487+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}